The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-02-20
Odds and Ends.

For artistic effects pictures should be hung fat
against the wall
Never bite the lips to make them red. Battle
them occasionally IN water with little dissolved
alum or borax and apply glycerine.
If the ear be big and ugly few curled locks
brushed carelessly back will help wonderfully.
Never comb the hair right back from an ugly
ear.
Carpets may be greatly frightened by first
sweeping thoroughly and then going over them
with a clean cloth aud clear salt and water Use
cupful of coarse salt to a large basin of water.
The juice of lemon, mixed with four times
as much water. unsugared and drunk just before
bedtime, will do more to counterfeit malarial in
f1uerces and correct surplusage of bile than a
dozen blue pills.
The following is recommended as u relief for
chilblains: Dissolve half An ounce of alum in
half gallon of hot water; put your feet in. as
hot as you can bear, for half an hour. Two ap-
plications will cure.
A good tooth-beaut,fer and preserver is pow
dered sulphur. This may be used daily Fresh
looking lips, clean white teeth and breath like
"sweet frankincense, also and myrrh," will make
up for many deficiency in feature.
Silver dried out Of hot water on a clean cloth
will be always bright and will not always need
the weekly cleaning. 1t is the washing in luke
warm water and drying when cold that gives the
dull leaden appearance after few days use.
| For fried apples make batter of two eggs a
| pinch of salt, cup of milk AND six tablespoon
| fuls of -four. Slice pared and cored tart apples
| very thin-as thin Saratoga potatoes. Dip
| them, spoonful at time in the batter and fry.
| Eas with powdered sugar ard cream, or liquid
| sauce.
| The girl with the ugly skin must take walk
| of two or three miles every day. wear shoes big
| enough for perfect comfort and eschew fats and
| pastry. At the same time she may rub sulphur
in little giycerine on the face at night. washing
| it off in warm water and a fewdrops of ammonia
in the morning
A very easy way to display cards or photo
graphs is to strain ribbons across a card board,
| chain stitching them at the lower edge and slip
| ping the card inside. If this plan be used for
| Christmas cards, ones initials should appear on
| three-cornered bit of plush in the lower right
hand corner, on a ribbon drawn across it. If
there be an easel in ones room, the card selected
| should be of size to fit it, and the ribbons
should match its drapery
To clean wall paper. take off the dust with a
| soft cloth. With little flour and water make
lump Of very stiff dough. and rub the wall
| gently downward, taking the length Of the arm
| at each stroke. and in this way go around the
room. AS the dough becomes dirty cut the
| soiled part off. In the second round commence
the stroke a little above where the last one end
ed, and be very careful not to cross the paper OF
| go up again. Ordinary paper cleaned in this
way will look fresh and brighs, and almost as
good as new.
For a pot roast trim off the rough parts of a
nice brisket of beef. weighing about four pounds
place 1t in q kettle over od fire. brown or
one side. then turn and brown On the other
then add one pint of boiling water; cover and
cook slowly fifteen minutes to every pound. Add
a teaspoonful of salt when the meat is hall
doue. After the water evaporates add no more
as there should be sufficient fat TO finish cooking
the meat. When the meat is dons place it
| heated dish Drain all the fat but two table
spoonfuls from the pot To the two tablespoon
fuls in the pot add the same quantity of flour
Mix we'll and add ore pint OF water; stir until i
boils; season and pour around the meat
1t is asserted now by some of the highes
| medical authorities that liIne-water and mill
are not only food and medicine at an early periot
of life, but also at later, when, 40 in the cas-
Of infants. functions Of digestion aad assimila